Author Archive | HelenHawley

Come and study for a PhD at the University of Manchester developing new technology for falls prevention alongside several of the FARSEEING partners. For further information please follow the link: https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=98720

FARSEEING has been recently selected by the European Commission as one of the top 3 most influential and high-impact projects of the last 11 years in the field of ICT for Active and Healthy Ageing, and the most successful consortium leading to ground breaking results to improve the understanding and management of falls! Excellent performance […]

Farseeing are still publishing work, please see our latest paper about predicting falls and turning. Although turning has been reported as one of the leading activities performed during a fall, and falls during turning result in 8-times more hip fractures than falls during linear gait, the quantity and quality of turns resulting in falls remain […]

If you would like to join our team at the University of Manchester and continue to work with key FARSEEING partners then please apply for this funded PhD! Evaluating new technologies for promotion of healthy active ageing: using smartphone apps and sensors to promote activity- acceptability and adherence measurement? This project is now advertised and […]